Dale Bumpers

You understand, of course, that some of the biggest corporations, and these billionaires who own hundreds of thousands of AUM's, if they had to pay more or if they gave it up, that would make a little room for some of the little ranchers…

grazing fees have been the subject of many hot controversial debates in this body. The reason is that our grazing fee policies are highly controversial. When I think about the farm bill that we passed last year and the proponents of the…

That is about how important this debate has been considered around here for the last 20 years. For private lands, $11.20 is the average of what people are paying private landowners to graze livestock on private lands. You are going to hear…

I take it from the Senator's comments that the fact that Montana gets $4.05 an acre and the U.S. Government gets $1.35 an acre, the Senator sees nothing wrong with that. In the private sector in Montana, people who lease private lands to…

So the Senator sees no inequity in the fact that the State of Montana leases its lands at $4.05 an AUM and the Federal Government receives $1.35? That doesn't bother the Senator?

Senator, we single out rich people with a little higher tax rate than we do poor people.

I want to add one point about the cost of keeping the astronauts supplied with in water in space. As I said before, it will cost $12,880 per pound to ship water to the space station. With each astronaut allocated 9.5 liters of water per…

I want to clarify the record on one thing, before Senator Heflin leaves the floor. As he knows, he and I talked about it, I also have a stent in my heart. We are getting conflicting information. My doctor told me he was part of the team…

I have listened to the speakers who oppose this amendment. I have listened very carefully. I have not heard anybody make any claims of any beneficial research, mechanical, medical, physical, or any other successful research being…

This amendment would terminate NASA's space station program... I believe very strongly that we are embarked on the expenditure of $100 billion that, in the final analysis, is going to be considered... as a terrible financial disaster. We…

I support the Conferees decision to fund research of host-pathogen relationships, rapid on-farm DNA-based diagnostic testing and improved methodologies for HACCP validation. These three areas have been targeted by the administration as…

Mr. President, let me say, first, that nobody knows better than I that our welfare system does not work very well. Everyone who is going to vote against this bill today said they do not like the system, that it is broke. There is a lot of…

That is right, you allocate it 2 years later than the Treasury Department receives it. But the basic problem here is that the Treasury Department underestimated by $1.5 billion 1994 receipts. So when it came time to appropriate the money…

to say that it is a complex issue is an understatement. I am not sure everybody on this floor fully understands what we are debating. But let me tell you what I do understand about it, and I welcome the comments of either of the managers…

this is an amendment which could get terribly complex. It involves a segment of the energy and water bill that is immensely complex. It is called ``Atomic Energy Defense Activities.'' Within that there is an account called ``Weapons…

The seasonal base plans reauthorized by this bill are merely intended to level production and prices over the year to stabilize the market and are not intended to provide any price enhancement or production incentives, measured on a yearly…

I do not want to shock my colleague too much, but I am not going to offer a rebuttal to the arguments he just made on the Market Promotion Program. I think I first offered an amendment to strike those funds 5 years ago, and the Senate has…

let me echo what the distinguished Senator from Mississippi has just said. First, let me say--I do not say this to be all that gracious but to simply state as fact--that the Senator from Mississippi's patience is much greater than mine…

the amendment being offered by Senator Graham of Florida and me is the same one we offered last year. It might have a few minor changes in it, but essentially it simply says that the block grant formula in this welfare bill should be…

Let me make one other observation, because I know the Senator has labored in the vineyard a long time on welfare. It is one of those issues for which the time never seems right. I said we ought to do it next year. We tried to do it last…

They are not going to get very much, but why do you want to lock in an inequity? You say it has always been unequal but want to lock it in?

I feel very strongly, and have for many years, that the Market Promotion Program, recently renamed the Market Access Program, is just short of outrageous. When I first got involved in it, the General Accounting Office had just done a…

I am pleased to join my very able colleague, Senator Cochran, in bringing to the Senate floor the fiscal year 1997 appropriations bill for Agriculture, rural development, the Food and Drug Administration, and related agencies. This bill…

That was certainly my intent, and I believe the intent of the members of the Small Business Committees of both the House and Senate, when we acted on this legislation in 1992. I feel confident that this was the understanding of the other…

If we did not have to pay interest on just the increased deficit that was accumulated when Ronald Reagan was President, we would not be standing here debating today because we would have a nice healthy surplus.